{"id":194646,"date":"2024-08-16T15:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/astrophotographers-capture-rare-jupiter-and-mars-encounter-photos"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T20:27:49","slug":"astrophotographers-capture-rare-jupiter-and-mars-encounter-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/astrophotographers-capture-rare-jupiter-and-mars-encounter-photos","title":{"rendered":"Astrophotographers capture rare Jupiter and Mars encounter (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astrophotographers-capture-rare-jupiter-and-mars-encounter-photos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two planets came as close as within a quarter-of-a-degree, or about 50% of the angular size of the lunar disk.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo Di Cola also captured the conjunction over L\u2019Aquila Italy. Both Jupiter and Mars were visible to the naked eye in the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17101-taurus-constellation.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17101-taurus-constellation.html\">constellation Taurus<\/a> during the cozy meet-up.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer also took this amazing composition image made up of nine interval timer photos showing the two planets rising through the sky. Mars and Jupiter are visible in conjunction and if you look carefully you can even see some of Jupiter\u2019s moons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two planets came as close as within a quarter-of-a-degree, or about 50% of the angular size of the lunar disk. Lorenzo Di Cola also captured the conjunction over L\u2019Aquila Italy. Both Jupiter and Mars were visible to the naked eye in the constellation Taurus during the cozy meet-up. The photographer also took this amazing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}